REFERENCE BOOKS

E 185.96 .G38 2000 African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country

ML 420 .L277 W6 1992 Life and Legend of Leadbelly (Archives of Appalachia)

E 185 .A253 1993 African American Encyclopedia

E 185.96 .C66 Contemporary Black Biography

BIOGRAPHY, NON-FICTION

E 185.96 .A18 1996 Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy of African American Achievement

ML 3521 .D355 1998 Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday

E 185.96 .P5 2000 Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters

780 Sh26 World of Soul: Black America’s Contribution to the Pop Music Scene

ML 419 .A75 C64 1983 Louis Armstrong, an American Genius

921 B2262 Benjamin Banneker, Genius of Early America

921 B264b Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

ML 385 .D26 World of Count Basie

F 592 B3975 Jim Beckwourth: Black Mountain Man and War Chief of the Crows

921 B465p Mary McLeod Bethune

782.81 K566r Reminiscing with Sissle and Blake

E 748 .B885 U76 1993 Ralph Bunche: An American Life

S 417 .C3M3 George Washington Carver

796.35 M973 Who Was Roberto? A Biography of Roberto Clemente

780.9 T364 Chasin’ the Trane: The Music and Mystique of John Coltrane

921 D82l Pioneer in Blood Plasma: Dr. Charles Richard Drew

781.57 E156 Music is My Mistress (Duke Ellington)

921 H192h Father of the Blues: An Autobiography (W. C. Handy)

ML 419 .H35 C5 1990 Song of the Hawk: The Life and Recordings of Coleman Hawkins

784.09 H717 Lady Sings the Blues (Billie Holiday)

784.09 J136 Movin’ on Up (Mahalia Jackson)

921 J633l James Weldon Johnson, Black Leader, Black Voice

781.5 G147 Scott Joplin and the Ragtime Era

E 185.97 .K5 A52 1998 Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

GV 1132 .L6 M4 1985 Champion—Joe Louis, Black Hero in White America

ML 410 .M6795 A3 Beneath the Underdog, His World as Composed By Mingus

921 M846l Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and Inventor of Jazz

301.45 Ow2i I Have Changed (Jesse Owens)

ML 420 .R274 L5 Mother of the Blues: A Study of Ma Rainey

E 185.97 R27 A82 A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait

ML 420 .R295 S3 Otis Redding Story

GV 865 .R6R34 1997 Jackie Robinson: A Biography

784.09 A114 Bessie (Bessie Smith)

N 6537 .T35 A4 1991 Henry Ossawa Tanner

E 185.97 T8 M32 1993 Sojourner Truth—Slave, Prophet, Legend

920. St45 Four Took Freedom: The Lives of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Robert Smalls, and
Blanche K. Bruce

921 W315t To Me It’s Wonderful (Ethel Waters)

921 W315 His Eye is on the Sparrow , an Autobiography (Ethel Waters)

784.09 R674 Bossmen: Bill Monroe and Muddy Waters

E 175.5 W65 G64 1993 Carter G. Woodson: A Life in Black History

GV 865 .P3 A3 1992 Pitchin’ Man: Satchel Paige’s Own Story

BP 223 .Z8 L5766 1990 Malcolm: The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America

E 185.97 .W69 A37 Standing Fast: The Autobiography of Roy Wilkins

VIDEOTAPE

VTR 2095 Benjamin Banneker, the Man Who Loved the Stars

VTR 1355 Paul Lawrence Dunbar American Poet

VTR 1838 Ida B.Wells a Passion for Justice

VTR 4722 Flight to Freedom the Underground Railroad

VTR 3502 Malcolm X: Make It Plain

Many more books about Black Americans and their contributions to American history are available in Sherrod Library. Check the online catalog.

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